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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt:...week he went security for a fellow whose face he scarce know. Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, i. To go the way of nature. See nature.--To go the whole figure, to go the whole hog, to go to the utmost extent to gain a point or attain an object. Slang. Why not, therefore, go the whole hog, and reject the total voyage, when thus in his view partially discredited? I)e Quince;/, Herodotus. II. trans. 1. To put up with; tolerate; consent to: as, I can't go his preaching. Colloq. Dickens, Sketches, Making a Night of It. I have tickled the Captain too: he must have pledged his half-pay to keep open house for you, and now he must live on plates of beef and goet of gin for the next seven crnarl-srmr lanA 'snArl » vellr-Nineteenth Century, XIX. 254. B, __."A?oat8PeIM" Great go, an examination for degrees. Cambridge Uni-versity, Eng. I never felt so thoroughly sick of every thing like a Mathematical book as Just before the Great Go, when my knowledge of Mathematics was greater than it ever was before or has ever been since. C. A. Briated, English University, p. 286. Little go, a previous or preliminary examination. Cambridge University, Eng.J The... Examination commonly called the Little Go (at Oxford the Smalls), being the former of the only two examinations required by the University for the B. A. de Ye may be goadtman for the first twa or three days, and t«k teut ye dlnna o'er-drivc the owsen, and then ye will be fit to gang between the stilts. Scott, Old Mortality, vl. A spur witKout a, rowel fepsSSKSQJ and having a single more or less blunt point. In the early middle ages this was the common form in Europe, goadster (god'ster), n. who drives with a goad; a goadsman. Cars drawn by eight white horses, goadtters in classical costume, with fillets and...